Foreign Minister Yván Gil announced that the Venezuelan ambassador to Spain, Gladys Gutiérrez, will be called for consultation. Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles described the administration of Nicolás Maduro as a “dictatorship”
The administration of Nicolás Maduro will summon the Spanish ambassador to Venezuela, Ramón Santos Martínez, to clarify the recent statements by the country’s Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, who described the Venezuelan government as a “dictatorship.”
Foreign Minister Yván Gil announced the decision on his social networks and added that they will call the Venezuelan ambassador to Spain, Gladys Gutiérrez, for consultation.
“The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in response to the insolent, interventionist and rude statements of the Spanish Minister Margarita Robles, which point to a deterioration in relations between the two countries, has decided to call the Venezuelan ambassador accredited to the Kingdom of Spain for consultations.Gladys Gutiérrez; and has summoned the Spanish Ambassador accredited in Caracas, Ramón Santos Martínez, to appear on Friday, September 13 at the headquarters of the Ministry of Popular Power for Foreign Relations,” said Gil.
Relations between the two countries have become tense since the government of Pedro Sánchez decided not to recognize the results of the presidential elections of July 28, in which Maduro won. While The Spanish Congress of Deputies approved on Wednesday, September 11, a proposal from the Popular Party for the Government of that country to recognize Edmundo González, as the elected president of Venezuela. The motion was supported by Vox, the PNV, the Union of the Navarrese People (UPN) and the Canary Islands Coalition (CC).
On Thursday 12th, Defense Minister Margarita Robles referred to Maduro’s government as a “dictatorship” reminding all Venezuelan men and women that “they have had to leave their country.”
Her statement was made during a presentation of Julia Navarro’s novel ‘The Boy Who Lost the War’, which took place at the Ateneo de Madrid, attended by former Prime Minister Felipe González, Judge Manuel Marchena and the recently appointed President of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), Isabel Perelló, among other personalities.
In connection with the totalitarianisms revealed in Julia Navarro’s novel, the minister made an aside to send a “I remember the men and women of Venezuela who have had to leave their country, precisely because of the dictatorship they live under,” which provoked applause from those present, reported Europa Press.
In this context, Robles mentioned Edmundo González, who is in Spain after leaving Venezuela to request asylum. He was received this Thursday by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, at the Moncloa Palace.
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